@maiyannah the real welfare bums are the people who live off of capital income. The rentiers and financier class. The folks whose average income increased substantially after 2008. Riding on living labour, or blatantly stealing from it, without any obligation or humility.

But the ability to perform labour is not personhood. There is at best only a limited salvation in wage slavery and "work ethic" for its own sake. In the modern economy human labour is increasingly not required for capital accumulation.

Here what has happened after 2010 is that people with disabilities or other chronic health issues have been reclassified as "job seekers". This creates "innovative" new opportunities to beg or die. I saw a lot of it in Manchester, and the online version is presumably its digital shadow.